Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] page_alloc: Introduce zone_movable_limit[] tokeep movable limit for nodes

From: Simon Jeons
Date: Wed Dec 12 2012 - 22:09:27 EST


On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 09:48 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 08:28 AM, Simon Jeons wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 18:32 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> >> Hi Simon,
> >>
> >> On 12/12/2012 05:29 PM, Simon Jeons wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your clarify.
> >>>
> >>> Enable PAE on x86 32bit kernel, 8G memory, movablecore=6.5G
> >>
> >> Could you please provide more info ?
> >>
> >> Such as the whole kernel commondline. And did this happen after
> >> you applied these patches ? What is the output without these
> >> patches ?
> >
> > This result is without the patches, I didn't add more kernel
> > commandline, just movablecore=6.5G, but output as you see is strange, so
> > what happened?
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> For now, I'm not quite sure what happened. Could you please provide the
> output without the movablecore=6.5G option ?
>
> Seeing from your output, your totalpages=2051391, which is about 8G. But
> the memory mapped for your node 0 is obviously not enough.
>
> When we have high memory, ZONE_MOVABLE is taken from ZONE_HIGH. So the
> first line, 8304MB HIGHMEM available is also strange.
>
> So I think we need more info to find out the problem. :)
>

[ 0.000000] 8304MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 885MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 375fe000
[ 0.000000] low ram: 0 - 375fe000
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x00010000-0x00ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x01000000-0x375fdfff]
[ 0.000000] HighMem [mem 0x375fe000-0x3e5fffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00010000-0x0009cfff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00100000-0x1fffffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x20200000-0x3fffffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x40200000-0xb69cbfff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0xb6a46000-0xb6a47fff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0xb6b1c000-0xb6cfffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x3e5fffff]
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 2051391
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0c2cc00, node_mem_map
f19c2200
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3949 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1740 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 220466 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 16609 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 1808595 pages, LIFO batch:31


menuentry 'Fedora (3.7.0+)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu
--class os $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-simple-7ed9528d-006f-4d9e-93d9-f68b0967ca99' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1'
eba9dfce-d7f1-4b5c-9199-f2abf80e5dc6
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
eba9dfce-d7f1-4b5c-9199-f2abf80e5dc6
fi
echo 'Loading Fedora (3.7.0+)'
linux /vmlinuz-3.7.0+ root=/dev/mapper/vg_kernel-lv_root ro
rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_kernel/lv_root SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us
rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.lvm.lv=vg_kernel/lv_swap rhgb quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initramfs-3.7.0+.img
}


> Thank. :)
>
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks. :)
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> [ 0.000000] 8304MB HIGHMEM available.
> >>>> [ 0.000000] 885MB LOWMEM available.
> >>>> [ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 375fe000
> >>>> [ 0.000000] low ram: 0 - 375fe000
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
> >>>> [ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x00010000-0x00ffffff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x01000000-0x375fdfff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] HighMem [mem 0x375fe000-0x3e5fffff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00010000-0x0009cfff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00100000-0x1fffffff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x20200000-0x3fffffff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x40200000-0xb69cbfff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0xb6a46000-0xb6a47fff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0xb6b1c000-0xb6cfffff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x3e5fffff]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 2051391
> >>>> [ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0c26a80,
> >>>> node_mem_map
> >>>> f19de200
> >>>> [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
> >>>> [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
> >>>> [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3949 pages, LIFO batch:0
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1740 pages used for memmap
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 220466 pages, LIFO batch:31
> >>>> [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 16609 pages used for memmap
> >>>> [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 1808595 pages, LIFO batch:31
> >>>
> >>> Why zone movable disappear?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/